Shopping In Athens
Athens has various shopping areas. The outskirts and some suburbs have shops worth visiting as well. For example, Glyfada is the seaside neighborhood always crowded with people in the expensive shops of all kinds. Paleo Faliro, an other seaside neighborhood, also has a busy street called Agiou Alexandrou that is filled with people shopping in the shops and pausing at cafes for a quick coffee or snack. Patission Street is an incredibly long street with clothes, shoes, and accessory shops. The prices are usually really affordable and the choices seem unending. Stadiou Street is the other street in the center, leading from Syntagma to Omonia Square, which is filled with luxurious gold jewelry from Greek designers. Kolonaki, the high class district of central Athens, has some of the most stylish and expensive shops, where one can find clothes from Greek and international designers. Ermou Street is the most famous pedestrian street leading from Syntagma to Monastiraki. It is also the biggest commercial street in Athens and attracts hundreds customers daily. The shops are filled with house furniture, clothes and shoes. Monastiraki and Plaka are the areas with the touristy shops, which sell souvenirs. They also have some cheap shops selling stuff as labeled shoes, hand made leather shoes, clothes, jewelry, traditional instruments and more. And the Sunday morning flea market there offers a huge quantity of diverse items.